Chapter 193 Crybaby
「E~....Although initially we were running in the red, but now the request for contracts have gradually spread from the shops in the slums to the shops of the general population, E-e- it was called deficit desune. Simply put, it’s like that.」
In a room on the third floor of a building in the slum area, Einaru who was entrusted with the security company was reading the report.
「You, that report is bullshit. Our Marifa is better at reading the report than you are zo.」
Marifa who was standing behind Yuu said 「I see, but even so…」with an expressionless face, while looking at the report.
Marifa's ears were moving with a *PikoPiko*.
By the way Koro was not in this room, because Koro who was growing day by day had now grown to a total length of 347 centimeters with a total weight of about 329 kilograms.
As a result, the building which had already aged quite a bit had all the possible indications that it could not support the weight of Koro, and therefore it was standing outside the building.
Furthermore, Namari, who would usually come running after Yuu, had gone out with Lena to buy a book. And Momo was as usual inside Yuu's flying cap, and so Marifa's mood was very good as she could finally fully monopolize Yuu.
「Boss, that is right. Even I agree though I was born in the slums, you know. I was even in the Mafia previously and we never had a report, you know?」
「Was it you? Just about everyone here are calling boss, boss. The man who is in charge of this Arucom Security Company is you, right?」
「No no no, boss is boss right? You can ask anyone in the Mafia. No, you can ask anyone here in the slum about who the boss is here, and everyone and I really do mean everyone, will know who the real boss is, you know?」
Einaru stroked his chin while saying so.
It was a habit of his when he had his chin beard, since he was born in the slums with no money to even care for his looks.
When Yuu said that personal appearance is very important and told him to get a grip, Einaru immediately groomed himself by cutting his hair short and shaving his beard.
「All I am doing is providing financial funds. And I heard that more and more people have been flocking to Comer, what could that be about?」
Yuu asks while reading through the report from Einaru.
Even though the demand for the Arucom Security Company has increased, there were still many people who thought that security services were wasteful, which was the reason that it had still not been possible to eliminate the fund deficits that Yuu had put up until now.
「There is no real reason desune. Humans and sub-humans--otto, I mean beastmen are still friendly, but the problem is the nobility who come from the east.」
Einaru fleetingly glanced at Marifa’s condition, using the word sub-human was one of the discrimination that the Demi Humans had suffered.
But Marifa was quite accustomed to being referred to as sub-human so she did not mind. But Yuu had told him to never speak to Marifa like she was his slave which was the reason for this rephrase.
「They think that they are special people, so if someone tried to go against them, they would turn around and try to behead you by parting your head from your neck.」
Einaru slaps his neck with his hand.
The nobles are very proud of having control over the people and running the country. The people have no choice but to obediently accept the deeds that the nobles do to them without opposition.
On the contrary, since most of the people in the slums do not pay tax, they are not even recognized as people. The nobles consider it a humiliation if they were to be pointed out by the inhabitants of the slums.
In fact, several subordinates of Einaru had been killed because they talked back to the nobility.
And even when these aristocrats kill the residents of the slums, the residents do not move; even if they were to be killed without a reason.
「Why do you not talk back?」
「Talk back? They are aristocrats you know? Even if it’s boss, you should not joke desune.」
「I have told you many times that I am not ‘boss’, right? And moreover I have other work to do.
There are still quite a lot of people left in the slum, so hire them steadily. And, what about the Capital of the Kingdom?」
「Even if you were to ask how it was going, no matter what we do we are not able to warm up to them. And I would like to make sure that there is potential there. The property of the Capital seems to be holding steady.」
「You do not need to rush to secure properties. Make sure that personnel that are being sent are not discovered.」
「Understood. There is no way for them to get rid of our people since we have sent in several groups. It would be quite troublesome if Lawrence finds out that those people are ours, because they are being backed by the financial ministers--」
「Please let me go!!」
As if barging in on Einaru's words, a girl’s scream reached the third floor room that Yuu was on.
Then Yuu stood up and opened the window and looked down to the outside.
In the slum district, some people were sticking out like a sore thumb, a middle-aged man and his servant were arguing with a young girl down below.
Curious spectators formed a crowd among the three people.
For the poor slum dwellers, this dispute was one of the forms of entertainment for them to kill time. Eventually, a man in the uniform of the Arcom Security company entered the dispute.
「Hey. Noble-sama, did this girl do something wrong? If that is so, then as you can see, she is a resident of the slums and so they don't know anything about manners, so could you please forgive this one?」
「N-No yo! These people want me to sell myself to them! And so I was refusing to sell myself! I already told you to leave me alone! You lewd old man ---kya!!」
The servant of the man slaps her on the face for disrespecting the noble.
The cheeks of the little girl who was slapped with quite the amount of force had already become swollen. Even so, the girl glared at the man without succumbing to the violence that they displayed.
「Watch the way that you speak! This one here is the younger brother of Baron Dani! The likes of you should never talk back to such a person!! 」
「One sec. Master, Please wait for a moment. There is no reason to resort to violence. If the girl is willing then I would gladly escort you to a brothel.」
「You, dweller of the slum, are you talking back to me, the servant of Mr. Rami-sama?」
「No No No, I wasn't talking back at all.」
「Shut up! Talking back to my servant is the same as defying me! In the first place, all of you dingy slum dwellers, have no right to speak without permission at all-- who are you?」
In Mr. Rami's sight, he saw Yuu looking down at the girl who is lying on the ground.
「Ge, Boss.」
The surrounding crowd started to get noisy.
Everyone were now waiting for what would happen, all of them who could do nothing about the nobles were now joyous, everyone were watching what Yuu would do next.
「You, are you selling your body?」
「I am not selling!! I shall die but I will never sell my body!!」
The girl stood forcefully and loudly denied.
Yuu and the little girl had eye contact for a while, and then he turned towards Mr. Rami.
「She says she is not selling, ok?」
「Who the hell are you? Appearing suddenly and saying whatever you want.
Are you for real? All of you are all slum dwellers. In truth, I do not even need to listen to your words, so stop being presumptuous.
I said that I would pay with money and you with your social standing have no right to reject it.
You filthy slum dwelling women should be happy at the fact that a high class noble such as myself is looking at you!! You should kneel down and appreciate this fact!! You female pig!!!」
Mr. Rami unsheathes his sword from his waist and slashes the sword towards the girl.
A head falls down to the ground while raising dust and bounces up once before rolling on the ground.
「NO! M-Mr. Rami-sama....!?」
The head of Mr. Rami hits the feet of a person before stopping.
「The filthy one here is you though.」
It was faster than when Mr. Rami took action, Yuu cut off the head of Mr. Rami before he could slash the girl.
The voice from the surroundings disappeared.
It was a usual thing in the slums to which they had already been quite accustomed to, but the surprising thing was the fact that despite knowing that the other party was nobility, Yuu did not even hesitate to kill.
「Take it. I live in a mansion located ahead from the west gate. Come anytime if you have complaints.」
When Yuu said so, he threw the head of Mr. Rami to his servant.
「N.....Nn....Noooo!?! Uwaaaaaa!!」
The servant man threw the head of Mr. Rami and ran away.
The action of the servant was quite natural. If he were to bring back the head as is, the man would be killed by the people of Mr. Rami's family.
「Oi, you forgot the head.」
Yuu then looked towards where the girl was, but the girl was not there anymore.
Because they lived in the slums, this much amount of fear was usual.
The subsequent sight was strange.
Beside a puddle of blood, a man of Arcom Security Company was being scolded by a black-haired boy, while a dark elf in a maid dress stood at the side.
The surrounding crowd were still looking at what was happening absentmindedly.
This incident was enough for the people at Arcom Security Company to understand that it did not matter to Yuu if the other party was a noble or a waste, that person would be killed regardless.
From that time onwards, the people of Arcom Security Company encouraged people to work more and to pull themselves together; and that even if the other party was a noble, they should not back down.
「Haahaa. He-help me please. Someone, please help me.」
A man who was the servant of Mr. Rami was running on the road of Comer City highway.
When the man looked backwards, a wolf and a cloud leopard-- Koro and Ran were chasing him from behind.
At first they kept a distance because it was in the street, but as soon as they came out on the highway, they started to run very quickly.
「n-No! Haa Haa in such a place.....Haaahaaahaaa, I don't want to die here! Some, someone---」
No matter how much the man ran at full speed, it could not compare to the speed of Koro and Ran. When the man looked back again, he was able to see that Koro and Ran who were quite far away had caught up close to him and were about to jump on him.
「Noooooo!!」
The next moment, the man disappeared.
Koro sniffed his nose and tried to follow the smell, but the smell of the man ceased from the place where he had disappeared.
Ran hurriedly invoked the skill 『Sea of clouds』.
The clouds that were flowing from the tail immediately spread itself into a wide range pretty quickly. But even so, there was no figure of a man in the scope of the clouds.
Ran was so frustrated that it hit the ground thinking of its incompetence.
「Haa Haaa.... I-I was saved. Are you the one that saved me? I heard that there were some co-workers, are you one of them?」
On a hill overlooking Koro and Ran, there stood the figure of the servant man.
Looking at the man who was tired from running, Nina looked at him disdainfully.
「You better run away from here as fast as possible. This place is not safe anymore.」
「I-I know. Even I don't wish to die in such a place.
E, heii. Even so, I did hear that you were crafty. Couldn't you have just made a trap that can catch them? I was even laughed at by them. That fellow is even a noble killer.
That person is so crafty that I was astonished.
After this, I will return back to the Kingdom and you can receive your reward money when you get there.Hee, and i will report about that group! Alright! No one shall ever call me a fool again!! Those people of the slums better watch it !!」
「Isn't that good?」
Thinking about the large sum of money that would be placed on Yuu for killing Mr. Rami, just thinking about the successful killing of Yuu was making the servant get excited since he would receive a part of it.
「Hee. Lo--ok! I have won!」
The man stood up after wiping the sweat on his forehead.
「I am thankful to you. It was because of the place and time that the brat had appeared, which was why the fuss had happened.」
「Quickly go already.」
「Aa, you are right. Even so, it was really an ugly looking hair color. It was completely black.
It was the first time that I had such a bad feeling.」
The man passes by Nina. At that moment, there was a feeling that something had happened to the man’s cheek, and when he raised his hand to stroke his cheeks, blood stuck to his hand.
「Hii, bloo!? What are you doing?!!」
A red line had formed on the cheek of the man, while the black dragon dagger had appeared on the right hand of Nina.
「Oi! What are you ----gah!? I can't breathe......oi.......」
The black dragon dagger was highly toxic.
It had a certain probability to activate various kinds of poison, but this time it was Neurotoxin.
The muscles in the body of the man had been immediately paralyzed and it had become difficult to breathe. The man tried to breathe but he could only move his mouth like a fish out of water.
「Do you feel bad about Yuu? Even if it was a joke, I can't let it go yo.」
Leaving the man to suffocate on the spot, Nina started to walk towards Comer.